Week one, Discovery into Arduino's capabilities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqDTE6dHpJw&feature=player_embedded


This video shows how someone programmed a bin with a sensor to 'see' the rubbish you throw and zip over to catch it before it misses the bin and hits the ground.
This is a good example of how i think design is heading. I think design is going down the path of adapting and shaping itself around our unconcious lives to make things easier/better. It's the luxury of design that the modern world has started towards, why bend down to pick up your rubbish when a robot can catch it before it falls.
Maybe a worrying sign of things to come, but maybe a vision of a world for the better.
Either way, very interesting and a great example of what we're discovering that this little Arduino board is capable of!

*N.B. The fantastic thing about this board that is apparant, is that it is open source. This means that the culture that surrounds Arduino makes it available for us to source code freely and experiment without restriction and without companies putting rules and fees on resources.
This is so beautiful, it shows a network free from all oppression- just people being people. People being creative and intellegent and inventing. The things that even a child is capable of when given free reign of this is amazing. The future of this whole idea and device seems bright...